On 01/23/2012 09:40 AM, gene heskett wrote: > On Monday, January 23, 2012 09:33:21 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > [...] > >>> That's the rub, this box is pclos, first uid,gid is 500. >>> >> Nothing says that UID/GID has to be used. Change the UIDs/GIDs so they >> match. Since pclos is lower than the Ubuntu UID/GID schema, it won't >> hurt anything on the pclos box to change your user there to match the >> Ubuntu UID/GID. You can also do this: >> > Except I lose sudo rights and must use su -. pclos would rather sudo went > away anyway. > Nothing to change on the pclos box, only the Ubuntu box. > > >> edit file /etc/login.defs with your favourite editor and find and >> replace this line : >> >> UID_MIN 500 >> GID_MIN 500 >> >> The 1000 as the UID/GID seems completely arbitrary, and Ubuntu seems to >> be the only one doing it. Convention has it that UIDs/GIDs<= 100 are >> for system use. Anything above is non-system-priv'd. >> >> >>> Cheers, Gene >>> >> Mark >> > The last time I tried to 'fix' that on the ubuntu box, I lost my sudo > rights and had to re-install. I presume there should be a precise order to > do it in, but I haven't deciphered it in 2 tries yet. > As long as you use the group <name> and not the GID for additional groups, ie admin:x:120:wendt (this is in the group file, and also the group that is given higher privs in the /etc/sudoers file) you shouldn't have a problem. Here's a page that outlines all the steps you need to do:
<http://www.jfdesignnet.com/?p=2083> > Thanks Mark. > > Cheers, Gene > Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
